Circulatory System
This blood vessel type carries blood away from the heart.🫀
What is an artery?🫀🩸
These are the smallest living organisms, consisting of a single cell without a nucleus 🦠
What are prokaryotes?
An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis. 🪴
What is a producer?🌱☀️
The physical expression of a trait.
This system includes the skin and helps regulate body temperature.🌡
What is the integumentary system?
These valves prevent back flow of blood in the heart🫀
What are atrioventricular valves?
These short, hair-like structures help bacteria adhere to surfaces.🦠
What are pili?
The total mass of living organisms in a given area. 🌿
What is biomass? 🌿♻️
A section of DNA 🧬 that codes for a specific protein.
What is a gene? 👖
This system transports hormones throughout the body. 🧬🤯🌪️
What is the endocrine system?
This protein in red blood cells carries oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
The transfer of DNA 🧬 between bacteria via viruses is known as this.
What is transduction?
The term for a species' role and position in an ecosystem. 🦎🧬🦖
What is a niche?
The type of inheritance 💰🔑🏡 in which both alleles contribute to the phenotype.
What is codominance?
This organ is responsible for filtering urea and other waste from the blood.
What is the kidney?🩺🫘🔴
This node initiates the heartbeat 💓 by sending out electrical impulses ⚡
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?
These white blood cells engulf pathogens through phagocytosis.🧪🔬⚛️
What are macrophages (or phagocytes)?🧪🔬⚛️
The cycle that describes how carbon moves through the biosphere. ⚫️⛏️🔥
What is the carbon cycle?↺↺
This tool is used to predict the outcome of genetic crosses.
What is a Punnett square? ⊞
This neurotransmitter is released at neuromuscular junctions to stimulate muscle contraction
What is acetylcholine?
This blood component is responsible for imitating the blood clotting cascade by releasing clotting factors when a vessel is injured.
What are platelets (or thrombocytes)?
This specific bacterial staining technique differentiates bacteria by the structure of their cell wall and assists in determining antibiotic treatment...
What is the Gram stain?🔬🔬🔬
This process occurs when nitrates in soil are converted into nitrogen gas by bacteria 🦠
What is denitrification?
A test Cross is used to determine the genotype of an organism showing a dominant trait. It involves breeding it with this kind of organism...
What is a homozygous recessive?
The name of the muscle pairs that work against each other to move bones.🦴🧍
What are antagonistic muscle pairs? 💪⚡️💪🏋️